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How I escaped suicidal depression
I had two alternatives. One was to kill myself, to end my struggle. The other was to find something rigorous and unorthodox to conquer this depression. How I escaped suicidal depression ‘I had two alternatives. One was to kill myself.’ By Leslie Contreras Schwartz, special to the Houston Chronicle November 17, 2014 “You will mostly likely have several suicide attempts in the future,” the psychiatrist said, sitting across from me in carefully crossed ankles you may need to use an ankle brace amazon. “And you will have severe clinical depression the rest of your life.” With a closed-lip smile, she closed my enormous patient file on her lap. “You must…
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I was suicidal. I needed help.
A year after her initial diagnosis, Mattocks was finally given dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) which was “the first treatment that genuinely helped.” An insight into youth mental health services: ‘I was suicidal. I needed help’ The health select committee has found ‘serious and deeply engrained problems’ in mental health services for young people At age 14, Nikki Mattocks began to hear voices in her head that drove her to self-harm. Plagued with suicidal thoughts, she sought help from her school and GP, but she was not immediately referred to a mental health professional. The next six months, before she was diagnosed, was a blur of suicide attempts and trips to…
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Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients
No matter how many times borderline personality disorder patients seem to “cry wolf”, the threat of suicide is real and needs to be taken seriously. Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients By: M. ALEXANDER OTTO, Clinical Psychiatry News APR. 22, 2014 AT THE ANNUAL AAS CONFERENCE VITALS Major finding: Following suicide attempts, patients with borderline personality features scored a mean of 14.51 points and nonborderline patients a mean of 12.96 on the Beck Suicide Intent Scale. Borderline patients scored a mean of 2.25 points and nonborderline patients a mean of 2.39 on the Medical Lethality Rating Scale. The differences were not significant. Data Source: Surveys of 90 patients admitted…
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My girl has not eaten for a year but NHS refuses to help
A mother whose anorexic daughter has refused food for a year has criticised the NHS for failing to provide the life-saving treatment she needs. Emma Duffy: ‘My girl has not eaten for a year but NHS refuses to help’ A mother whose anorexic daughter has refused food for a year has criticised the NHS for failing to provide the life-saving treatment she needs. Beverley Duffy’s daughter, Emma, who also suffers from borderline personality disorder, relies on liquid nutrition through a tube. But the 24-year-old has been refused a bed at The Retreat, in York – one of the nation’s only units to treat eating disorders and BPD together – on…
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Targeted Therapy Halves Suicide Attempts in Borderline Personality Disorder
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) reduced suicide attempts by half compared with other types of psychotherapy available in the community in patients with borderline personality disorder, an NIMH-funded study has found. DBT also excelled at reducing use of emergency room and inpatient services and more than halved therapy dropout rates compared to the mostly traditional approaches, report Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., University of Washington, and colleagues in the July 2006 issue ofArchives of General Psychiatry. “All treatments are not equal for such suicidal patients,” said Linehan. Borderline personality disorder is a difficult-to-treat mental illness affecting up to two percent of adults, 5.8-8.7 million Americans, mostly young women. People with this disorder of emotion…
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Gun Control and BPD
“Having the scarlet letter saying you had a mental health issue… that prevents you from purchasing a weapon, I’m not sure that’s a wise policy statement,” said Mark Pearlmutter, an emergency physician in Boston and an expert on mental health issues. “However, anyone who has history of violence, incarceration, borderline personality disorder, or unpredictability, I would personally support those patients not having access to weapons.” Bon: I am NOT getting political here. I wanted to point out that I would never own a gun while living with a person with Borderline Personality Disorder. The impulsiveness + suicidal ideation + access to a gun = a very dangerous situation. D.C. shift:…